The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20
The Last Day of the Trial.

The Last Day of the Trial.
MACON, Ga, December 15.-[Special. AT
o a. IN. today Tom Voolfolk was brought to
the courthouse by the sheriff and his deputies.
He was clean shaven and showed no symptoms
of being at all ratified. He sat and gazed out
of the window toward the distant hills, be-
yond the river, where the home OF his ances-
tors was built in the long ago. The picture
on which his weary eyes rested was cheerless
and uninyiting. 1t was scene OF wintry des-
olation, and there was not single sunbeam to
Tighten the prospect. Capt. Hardeman looked
like man fully prepared for the task before
him as he arose and began the continuance of
THAT FEARFUL ARRANGEMENT.
He spoke in a calm, deliberate and determ-
ined manner. He took up the question of the
bloody clothing and reviewed the testimony
fully. He recalled the fact that Voolfolk had
sent for water, and that the prisoner had in
sisted that the water be brought him in cup,
and not in the dipper at the wash-stand The
speaker contended most emphatically,
that Tom Voolfolk did use the expression as
had just been read from the paper, that
1.-THE BLOOD WAS FLYING
everywhere" when the prisoner got the fatal
speck in his car. Voolfolk claimed that he
did not use the language, and that 1t was a
mistake. Solicitor Hardeman stated in thrill
ing language, that it was a fatal mistake on
the part of the prisoner to use such language.
The speaker quoted most beautifully:
"The shadows are many,
The sunlight is one,
But in tracing the shadows
We find out the SUM-"
In his powerful address the speaker hurled
fact after fact in the face of the defendant. In
speaking of the blood In the well he rehearsed
the bloody details of the Sepoy rebellion, where
number of women jumped into a well ON the
public square OF Cawnpore, and after Havelock
recaptured the city,
THE VERY STONES
were found saturated with the blood of the
bodies who we're afterwards thrown in ON top
of those who gDfauQ into the well.
At II o'clock the speaker closed with
one of the finest perorations ever delivered.
lie spoke, altogether only three and a half
hours, but his effort was most mastery.
At twelve o'clock, sharp, Judge Gustm
BEGAN his CHARGE
and ii took three-quarters Of an hour exactly
to complete it. Captain Rutherford, in behalf
of the wretched prisoner whom he has SO ably
defended, handed in some requests, which the
court embodied in the charge, at the same
time putting in such notifications as the law
and the evidence in the case admitted Of and
justified. The charge was fair and impartial.
The prisoner was given the benefit OF every
thing that even partook Of the least shadow Of
doubt.
The court had tried the case all through the
liYe-long night when others, including the
accused, were wrapped in slumber The andi-
ence Of
AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND
persons sat spell bound while the court was
directing the jury. There was not the least
bit Of that apathy, which generally character
ICES petit jury. Every member Of that body
OF just and true citizens, looked as il lac keenly
Appreciated tho task before him.
When the court concluded there was one
GREAT SIGH or RELIEF
that arose from tho vast assemblage, and the
Jury retired to their room. They were out
only twelve minutes and returned AZ 10 p.
IN They selected II, J. Harvey as foreman.
Amid tie breathless silence that followed
their entrance, tho jury handed in their YER
dict.
II was: eve the jury find defendant
guilty"
There was
No MENTION OF MERCY,
and It was made apparent that there was no